Anthony Fauci speaking about asymptomatic spread of respiratory viruses. Do you know if there is a way to tell if a YouTube video is monetized?

No Bill, you are wrong. You are insinuating that I am a diseased person who is going out and spreading it . Your perception that I am spreading disease if I am not wearing a mask is just flat out wrong. When I go out into public sick you are welcome to shame me. Until then, I find this type of statement an attempt to be emotionally manipulative so that people will behave the way that you perceive is superior.

From reading some of your other posts I figured GABA and surrounding issues would be something you have some familiarity with. It is definitely a potentially double edged supplement. And, as it sounds like you know, part of some seriously sophisticated biochemical systems in the body. Possibly looking into ways to decrease blood brain barrier (BBB) permeability would help too (maybe for you?, but esp. for kiddo with a rough reaction to GABA - but you're probably on top of that too). *If* the tinnitus was glutamate related, well... glutamate can increase BBB permeability. And once the BBB is more permeable there will be more excitatory activity from the glutamate. It's a really viscous cycle and I don't really know if there is anyone out there with awesome answers about what to do about it.

I didn't say I was glad that some people didn't come. I also didn't accuse you of being a sissy. Don't try to make me responsible for whatever feelings you have about other people choosing to live their lives in a way that isn't right for you.

Agree that it is rational for some people to be more concerned, but I trust that those people can make decisions about their own risk and what it is okay or not for them to participate in. We had a different event where the organizer is a kidney transplant recipient and requested that everyone wear a mask. So guess what, everyone did and if they didn't want to they stayed home. So, *gasp* some people may have been excluded... but I never would have described it that way or complained that he wasn't accommodating my preferences. Maybe your Covid views are political (don't know) but mine are not. Why anyone would trust a politician for medical advice is beyond me!

Well, the event sold out so..... guess it's good they didn't want to go anyway. I keep hearing people whine about feeling excluded but they're welcome to wear a KN95 to protect themselves - and it is supposed to be super effective if they wear it correctly. I think it is just that they're scared but want to complain that others don't carry their same level of fear. Just want to try to shame others for being willing to go about life.

Our family has been done with masking for a long time. We only wear masks if it is worth doing the thing it is required to do. We do all the things that we would normally do to have strong immune systems and have good hygiene. The under 18 year olds here are mostly having mild symptoms here when they get covid. We live in a university town so there are lots of people under 50 years old and our county has had zero under 50 covid deaths. Interestingly, the older and more at risk population here largely took one of two routes - some have been done with masks for a long time and others are using KN95. I don't see a lot of older people using cloth masks. Last weekend my son competed in an indoor event that changed from masks required to masks optional and a lot of people chose to ditch the mask. It was a mix of adults and kids. A few people who wanted the protection wore KN95 masks. Everyone just respected everyone else's decision. No ridicule, animosity, etc. in either direction.

No personal experience with tinnitus, but, have you tried or thought about trying GABA? I know that some people have improvement using it for tinnitus and there are papers out there about increased glutamate and tinnitus so it makes sense that balancing that out with GABA could be helpful. GABA supplementation can end up increasing glutamate rather than reducing it for some people though so that has to be considered. GABA also regulates the release of inflammatory cytokines and may help inhibit tnf alpha. GABA might help with the pain too. Looking into other ways to decrease glutamate might be a research path as well. There is evidence of increased glutamate levels with COVID (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.24.432759v1) so maybe with the shot too. The article I linked talks about monocytes being the key to altered immune response in COVID but of course they're involved when you get the shot too. Bruce Patterson and team has a paper about this being the case in long haul Covid and I think they've seen it in immunized people as well (but I don't know if they've published that data). Here's their explanation of what is happening: https://youtu.be/IvWPT3YA5uY?t=51 . I don't know much about how they're treating the inflammation, if it is sound, or how well it is working for patients - so no comment from me on the treatment that group is offering. But, it definitely seems like getting those monocytes that are trying to move waste out (spike protein is what covid and the shot have in common) would be a big priority in feeling better. So, no answers from me but hopefully this will give some additional research paths to look at. Hope it gets better soon.

Raw vegan doesn't work for me but diet was a HUGE part of being able to put my autoimmune disease into remission. Good luck and I hope that this, or something else, will work for you.

I really wanted my kids to be interested in a lot of the Story of the World activities, but they just weren't. We read the series together once and my kids each read each of the books on their own a second time and they really liked it. We've read some of the other books mentioned here as well as The World in Ancient Times books - which my kids loved! Right now they're a little over half way through the A History of US series and it's the first time we're doing anything extra (just maps and timeline). Something they really like is going to historical places using Google Maps - it's like a mini virtual field trip.

I know a person who is brilliant at carpentry math that involves fractions but struggles with using fractions in other domains. It seems odd on the surface, but I suspect that something is missing in their mental model of fractions.

It really sounds like your daughter is going to have an awesome math/logic/cs foundation for her future. My husband, an engineer, and I have been talking about how we wish we'd had access to resources like iMacs offers as kids. IIRC, about a quarter of my freshman year Intro to Computer Science class dropped the class and many changed their major after the class. The class used scheme, like UCS1, and my alma mater is still, more than 2 decades later, using scheme in the intro course. So many of my classmates weren't used to working on more challenging problems that they couldn't just apply an algorithm to.

This is a really HUGE topic that I'm not going to be able to fully engage in, but let's say that I had to show proof of vaccination to go to the DMV because the CDC/local health agency said so under public health. Even if I wasn't required by law to get a vaccine, life would be.... really hard. If that were to come to pass, perfectly healthy people without a communicable disease could be limited. I think that the "nudge" philosophy of making it hard for people to do things so that they'll comply is antithetical to living in a free, liberal, world.

I can understand that and it hits on a major issue - not everyone agrees on whether or not covid-19 warrants our current response. Hard to agree on solutions when people don't agree on what the problem is....

I should be more specific - I have a beef with anyone who would require it by law using the justification that we have to force people to protect others. If a "vaccine passport" wasn't on the table I would be content with people going about believing whatever they want and acting in ways they choose w/ regard to covid. For those who would not require by law, I'm only annoyed with those that would claim others are "selfish" for not choosing to do something that they think protects them/others. For people who get the vaccine because they want it, and they others to get it, and it makes them feel like life is safer, I feel no animosity. Seems very golden-rule-ish to me.

If people choose, even in part, to get a vaccine because they think it protects other people that is up to them. I would not and will not ask them to do that . This might be subtle, but people who want others to get the vaccine because they want to be protected by other people is where I have a beef.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/covid-19.htm

I don't have a "normal" immune system either. I would never ask you to be responsible in any way for my health. My Dr. suggested an immune boosting vitamin protocol and to skip the vaccine. She helped me put Hashimoto's Thyroiditis into remission and I trust her. As in, I no longer even need thyroid replacement hormones. Working with her advice works for me - and I won't try to push it on you or your family and friends with immune problems. Hmmm... so what you're saying is that the experts that you believe are right and any others are wrong? What makes you qualified to decide *for other people* (I trust that you can do you)? There's a lot of opinions and research out there and it's not easy to sort through everything. My reaction at the beginning of covid was *extreme* caution/precaution. We used masks while they were on the news telling people not to use masks, LOL. With time and new information my concern level has changed. For example, Since the news is focusing on the push to vaccinate and control the behavior of young people I was just trying to look at some of the CDC data this morning for U18yrs and it looks like non-covid pneumonia resulted in 3x as many deaths over the last year as covid did. Covid and the flu were roughly the same. I don't see how that justifies recommendations I see being pushed.

Influenzas also have strains that are more infections, cause more serious complications, result in more deaths. My perspective is that this new coronavirus is now endemic and that we're going to have to move forward with it being part of the diseases that humans have to deal with.

My mistake, and that's good to hear! I still think we read the same article and had different things we took away

I happen to find it very comforting that for a very large number of people their natural immunity will provide protection to not only COVID-19, but also variants/mutations/other strains.

I have no idea about what is driving the behavior of the OP's acquaintance, but I did want to share this person's perspective. I haven't 100% decided what I think about this, but it is interesting to think about/consider: Crude and Unethical: Why Boris Johnson was wrong to try and terrify us into submission https://www.thedatapsychologist.com/post/crude-and-unethical-why-boris-johnson-was-wrong-to-try-and-terrify-us-into-submission

You skipped a whole lot of interesting and thought provoking information in that article to try to try to come up with some sort of "gotcha". I happen to agree with Ho - if you stop the virus from replicating.... you stop the virus from mutating. Isn't that sort of elementary!? But, he also says: Sooo.... it's already going in a direction that is causing it to escape from our current vaccines? Well so much for the magic jab! But this perspective offers some hope: https://www.pandata.org/how-broad-is-covid-immunity/

Since the theories of Geert Vanden Bossche being discussed in this thread, I thought I'd drop this off. Sorry for the formatting, I'd try to fix but I don't have more time right now. https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/node/23354 New Study of Coronavirus Variants Predicts Virus Evolving to Escape Current Vaccines, Treatments News March 8, 2021